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During the excitement a strange wontai Who giveB her name as Rosalie LeG range, appears and takes into her own home Across the street all of Mrs. Moore's boarders, including Miss Estrilla, an in- Valid, who was r>or<fined to the room she d^otipied and whose brother was a favor­ ite among the other boarders. Wade is arrested aa he is about to leave the coun­ try. Mrs. IjeGrange, who. while plying •her trade aa a trar.ce medium, had elded Police Inspector Martin McGee several tftnes, calls at hfs office to tell what she fknows of the crime. While she Is there, Constance Hanska, widow of the murder­ ed man. whose existence had been un­ known, appears. Mrs. Hanska. says she had left h^r husband and discloses th» * fact that Wade represented her and , vis­ ited Hanska on the night of the murder tn an effort to settle their affairs. She admits Wade was in \ove with her. Wade to held by the coroner's jury for the death of Hanska. Tommy North, who had been lield by the police, is leleased and re­ turns to "Mrs. LeGrange's house. He be­ comes Infatuated at once with Betsy Bar­ bara. Driven by the belief that Betsy Barbara loves Estrilla Tommy North gets drunk and is discovered by Betsy Bar- bara. The next morning Tommy apolo­ gizes to Betsy Barbara and at her urging prepares to establish the Thomas W. North Advertising Agency, Mrs. L.e- Qrange, with Inspector McGee, examines •lte house where Hanska was killed and ftads on the fire escape outside Hanska's window a red shoe button, which she con­ ceals. Mrs. I^eGrange secretly examines the ahoes of her boarders in search of -cite the red button will fit. She pretends to. go into a trance In Miss Estrilla's room and communes with spirits. Rosalie se­ cures from Inspector McGee the services of an Italian detective, to work under her direction. Rosalfcft finds evidence to •how that Estrlllas' real name is Perez that they formerly lived In Fwrt of "" ' r CHAPTER X11.--^Continue*!, It came as she had expected--the jgKicond test. Clearly and distinctly, •Mats Estrilla said in English: '"You are & fraud. I am pointing a' Kivolver at your head. Wake and bold up your hands or I will shoot .you!" Rosalie slumbered on in eeeming; and this time it needed no effort of Tthe will. But the foot sent a thou­ sand tiny twinkles of pain and dis­ comfort up her ankle. She was medi­ tating how she might manage a natu­ ral awakening, when Miss Estrilla rihook her and said in her natural voice: <- • •f "Mrs. Le Grange! Mrs. Le Orange! fetfakeu$!'» •^Rosalie came to full consciousness ;;>i|Dst- artistically and effectively. * "What was it--dear me, my foot's ,01iileep! OwJ" she said. Sho rose ' and hobbled about the room. "Did * 1 stay out long? This Just takes the . Simp out of me--I won't be fit for a thing to-morrow an' it's scrub-day ,<4oo! mSffi---- j$r--v* ,4 •> aometimea I never say a word." ">'• : i,<. VOh, a great many things." v A i;"Well, I must have, I'm that tuck- -Mted cut. Biscusc se for askia', but 'f'y'K, ."iNui it about anybody in the house ?* •llC •^'•'You did bring something for me; '^1 v What have I been talkin' about--or did £ talk at all? They're told mo that if ll itit 5 * : 1 M *. r pf "That 8iek Woman 1" He Said. • ' Just a little--but it was something, I Iran ted to know. Do you thidk you CN|n find more next time, if--" "Now, my dear!" put in Rosalie, f*4on't ask me (hat! I can't tell you how hard I've been tryin' to stop this thing, which is bothersome to say the feest about it"--she crossed the room-- "I've let it come these two or three times just because I couldn't help it. It would be askin' a lot." " "But it would comfort me," replied tile invalid, weakly; and there were (Bars in her voice. "And, oh, you dont Inflow how I need comfort!" rt"Poor dear! I* know how it is. 9Bj>u're sick, aa' I suppose you have CONCRETE TO HOLD A RIVER ^Material Used to Patch Holes in Bod . . Through Which the Water Period­ ically Vanishes. ̂It has been found necessary to put another patch on the bed of the Blanco river, says the Martindale (Tex.) Dis­ patch. This stream has a remarkable way of losing itself, and la order to festore it to its surface channel, a concrete patch has been placed upon holes through which it disappear*- For many years it has been empty- lag portions of its flow into «n^ii holes in its bed, but it was not until about a year ago that the entire bot­ tom, so to speak, dropped out at a - fioint near San Marcos. • In one night the river below that ybint went dry. It had had a width Of nearly 200 feet and was flowing a •irong current until the sudden dis­ appearance of the water. The drylag *p of the stream meant heavy loaaos to persons dependent upon it for water dwppiy. Civil engineers were consulted la re-, taard to ths lav. and It waa your troubles--we all have in this world. But when a person's sick, she Jest lays an' lets it roll up in her, like. Well, now, let's see--" Rosalie paused as though considering. "I tell you what I'll do. I won't try, an' I won't force it, but seein' this is private- like, I'll stop resiBtin' the influence when it comes over me. An' I'll al­ ways beat it straight here. Perhaps it was sent to do us both good! That's settled." J - Rosalie held that night another of her outdoor conferences with Inspec­ tor McGee. "Well, I'm comin' out with it," she announced. "I've got to tell some­ body. I guess I've got your case start­ ed, Martin McGee!" "Then this fellow Wade--" "You make me," said Rosalie; "you make me want to shut my mouth an' never tell you anythin' at alL Wade! A cop can't keep two ideas in his mind at one an' the-same time, any more'n a horse. Martin McGee, you listen an' don't you say a word until I'm through." With a logical con- secutiveness almost surprising in Ros­ alie. she stated her case from the beginning. Tommy North's clew of the diamond ring which Tommy North had dropped and which had s^t Rosa­ lie on the trail, the discovery that the coverlet on Captain Hanska's bed had been wet with rain from the open window; the finding of the little red button on the fire «scape, the discov­ ery that Miss Estrilla had among her possessions a pair of redv strapped shoes with a button missing, and the final fact--the button matched. Inspector McGee received that dra­ matic information with a long whistle of amazement. "That sick woman!" he said. "Gee, and I'd thought of examining her. But there didn't seem to be a chance on earth. I'd thought more about that brother of hers." * Rosalie pursued her narrative, set­ ting forth her discovery that Estrilla was an assumed name and the , discov­ eries of Detective Grimaldi about the history of, the Perez family in Trini­ dad. She proceeded then to the se­ ances, and to Miss Estrilla's attempt at frightening her out of control. "Is that all?" asked McGee. "Yes. Ain't it enough?" "Well, it's suspicious. But there's no real evidence. Nothing you can convict on. <Suppose I pinch her--and her brother, too--and give 'em the Third Degree?" "See here, Martin McGee," replied Rosalie, "what have I been takln' all this trouble for, spendin' my good time to get her to believe I'm a me­ dium, if I ain't to be trusted to run this case? You can have your Third Degree afterward--when I'm through with mine." » . "That's so," replied McQoa. "Well, anything I can do to help f" "Yes. How long does it take to got a man to Trinidad? Or is there any­ body ia Port of Spate that* you eaa use?" "I've had a man there a week. An­ other case--missing burglar." "That's good. Very importantf" "No. I guess he can be spared!" "Luck's with us if nothin' else. This is a three-times winnin'. Now you Just cable him--wait a minute, I'll write the message--got a pencil an' paper?" . They were in a side street. A lamp-post threw a shaft of light across the stoop of a vacant house. Rosalie set herself on the lowest step, braced the note-book which McGee produced, and, with many a purse of lip and brow, composed the following mes­ sage; * "Drop anything and get full Infor­ mation on the late Miguel Perez, cacao grower of Port of Spain, and his fam­ ily, especially Juan, his son, and a daughter, probably half-sister of Juan, name unknown. Details about life of the family especially wanted and the smaller the better. Learn everything you can about first wife. Suggest pumping old family servants. Wlre^^^ ̂ jy 'to be ridlculou8. Roga full as you get the dope." "There," concluded Rosalie, an' a lot I'm goln' to cost New York City for cable tolls." "Sqy," said Martin McGee, "when they put this Estrilla woman through --if she's the one--I can see the pa­ pers. 'Woman against woman. Bx» medium sends victim to the--'" "Don't say that!" exclaimed Rosalie. "For God's sake don't!" She had been walking elbow to elbow, leaning a little upon him. Now she drew away. And much more that Martin McGee had intended to say, remained unsaid that evening. decided to patch' the nole Into which the water was emptying. This was done at a heavy expense. A few days ago the river wore an­ other big hole through the bed twenty miles northeast of here and the same method of patching is being followed. ••wS^CHAPTEfl XIIL *The Pinal Test. - ̂ Under the pretense that her obses­ sion was driving her, that she had bottled it up too long, that "it Just had to come out of her," Rosalie L#e Grange multiplied the seances with Miss Es­ trilla to the point of danger and In- caution. On the second day after the session in which Miss Estrilla had tried the test of the fictitious revolver, she was back again.- This time--having assur­ ance that this was the true line of at­ tack--sho brought both Victoria and Miguel. Victoria, according to Doctor Carver, was the stronger; she spoke much, though vaguely. Miguel dropped only a few phrases--now Spanish, now English. During this session Miss Es­ trilla never moved nor spoke. But Rosalie, daring a look at her through her long lashes, perceived that her attitude was tense, rapt. In' this, her third seance, Rosalie was proceeding ae cautiously as an elephant on a bridge, waiting for that first and vital question. It came at the fourth sitting. By this time, Rosalie had begun to receive cable reports from Port ^ of Spain. The detective, it appeared, was a policeman of singular fidelity or of singular acumen. Taking literally the order about "little details," he had filed one of the jnost curious dis­ patches in the annals of the New York Police Department. It glittered with gems for Rosalie Le Orange. Es­ pecially was It strong in facts con­ cerning Miss Estrilla's relations with her father. Thetr rides together when she was a little girY and the family was conspicuous on the island, the cir­ cumstances of an accident to one of the horses, even pet names and small coin of domestic intercourse--all this he set forth fully. Beyond doubt, he had found the "old family servant" mentioned in the telegram of instruc­ tion and milked him dry. So at this fourth seance Rosalie brought not Miguel--that were too great a strain on her Spanish--but Vic­ toria--introduced her, as usual, with vague sentences, growing always more definite, and crystallizing finally into the vital startling fact. Rosalie was speaking freely now, her pose that of a dead trance. "Do you remember," she asked, "the time they carried you home, as though you were dead, from the stable, and you revived and spoke to me when they brought you in the door? Do you remember--Margy deer? The tele­ gram from Detective Hawley had in­ formed Rosalie that the baptismal name of Miss Estrilla--or Miss Peres --was Margarita; and that her mother used the name in its English form and her father in Spanish. "Do you remember, Margy dear?" repeated the voice of the "spirit" through the entranced lips of Rosalie Le Grange. "Yes," Bald Miss Bstrtlla, so sud­ denly that It nearly shook Rosalie out of the trance. "I remember, mother dear. What was his name--that horse?" ("Still a little skeptical; bat It's the last gasp. I'll fix her right now. Lucky I've got It!" said the mind of Rosalie Le Orange working rapidly behind her mask.) "We had Billy and--but it wasn't he--it was that black horse Vixen which you would ride against my wishes!" said the voice. Rosalie heard Miss Estrilla heave a long sigh; heard her settle herself against the pillows as though quite overborne by emotion. But Rosalie did not proceed directly along the road of treacheries which she was traveling. Victoria went away with the capricious suddenness of all Rosalie's spirit friends. The voice of Laughing-Eyes, the child control, burst in. Upon Miss Estrilla Rosalie used Laughing-Eyes sparingly. With an ignorant and overimpresslonable sit­ ter she was an Invaluable feature, this L^ighing-Eyes. To a person of great­ er discernment, the child impersona- «l "No. He is afraid. And he is weak In spirit!" babbled Laughing-Eyes. "Maybe he will come again--maybe!" And Laughing-Eyes giggled and bab­ bled of Miguel and Victoria and a dozen spirits Impertinent to Miss Es­ trilla. Yet always in her babblings she seemed to hold the atmosphere of truth; she referred casually and in remote ways to a dozen facts about Miss Estrilla's family and her past. Presently her voice died away; and Rosalie lay silent and impassive, wait- ing for Miss Estrilla to wake fee* ' With the Invalid. A nursery ice box in the eiek room Is a convenience not only to the in­ valid but to the nurse. A bottle of wa­ ter can always be kept there on hand for drinking. Milk, too, can be kept on tap, and other food can be stored there from day to day. Any tin box can be made to serve as a nursery ice box. If you have an old bread box, use that. Put a pan In the bottom of it, and lay a wire cake tray, the sort that yuu put in the oven tu hold cake or bread tins, over the pan. Put the ice on the tray, and the melting water will drain into the pan. This, of course, must*1 be emptied whenever it is full. Put milk and water in the bottom of the box, and put other things around the ice, on " the wire tray. There to an ice blanket which hllfs keep the kse from melting and lie usually employed her, therefore, only to fill in the chinks, to occupy the time while she was thinking. "Lady is gone!" eaid Laughing-Eyes. "Pretty lady! Another spirit--oh--I see pretty things! They shine--oh-- go away. Come back!!' No, he will not stay,"-she paused here. And now Miss Estrilla spoke again, and in such a tone that Rosalie knew she might hurry to her climax. "Can't you bring him back, Laugh­ ing-Eyes?" she said. "Oh, please bring _him back. Tell him, oh, tell him that I am not angry!" A dry sob shook the silences of the room. so reduces the cost of Ice, and one of these would be useful In the nursery ice box. It is wrapped about the ice or spread over it, and it is said that It is as durable as it is convenient. -- », Growth of Libraries, Multiplication of puMte free libraries in recent years has convert­ ed the annual meeting of the Library association from an enjoyable family party into an immense and formal conference. The change is not exact­ ly of yesterday, but it coincides more or less with the burst of library build­ ing .stimulated by the munificence of Mr. Andrew Carnegie. Judged by the amount of public money expended upon them, libraries take rank now among our leading public services. Whether the good that they do is a fair return for the expenditure upon them is more open to doubt. It Is a sound ideal, and indispensable to a real national culture, that every con­ siderable town should possess a cen­ tral reference library, at which would- be scholars and students of any sub­ ject may, as far as possible, have ac­ cess to all books of serious rata* i>v CHAPTER XIV. John Talks, • Itm".the foStowing Beance*--held the next afternoon at the special and plaintive request of Miss Estrilla-- Rosalie Le Grange reached afe test the very kernel of the matter. 1 •. She brought "John." She had prepared, by a special and subsidiary line of play, for this vital move. She had been cultivating Con­ stance Hanska. With arts all her own, Rosalie broke through the re­ serves of that distressed widow. From discussion of the murder, Rosalie led her on to details of her married life. From that, she lured Constance into deeper confidences, which involved the personal peculiaritiee of the late Cap­ tain Hanska, such as his way of speak­ ing, the quality of his voice, and hiB methods with women. When Rosalie settled down to the fifth seance, she had in her mind a picture of John H. Hanska which was good enough for any of her purposes. The preliminaries were over; Laugh­ ing-Eyes had gone her babbling way back to the land of spirit; Doctor Carver held control. "A spirit has been' trying to commu­ nicate, but he Is a new spirit and not yet strong. He says that the lady's sickness Is not of the body. It is of the mind. He also is not happy yet. John w&b his name on the fiesh-plane --It is hard--we over here mu^t make an effort--it is a strain on us as on the medium--I get an 'H.'" In the en­ suing silence, Miss Estrilla gave one hard sob. The silence lasted for half a min­ ute. Rosalie strained and struggled as though a tumult were going on within. Then came a man's voice, higher and softe'r than that of Doctor Carver. "I am John, Margaret. I can not etay long, I am not strong--they tell us over here--that we mult forgive-- even as we are forgiven. But--I will come again--" 4 "Oh, John--I am trying to forgive-- oh, do you understand--wait--" gasped Miss Estrilla. But John spoke no more. "He may grow stronger after a time," said the voice of Doctor Carver, "If this poor earth vessel through which we speak does not break." So he finished the pertinent part of that session. The seances were coming every day now. Miss Estrilla wiBhed it; and Rosalie granted her request with an appearance of indulgent reluctance. The next day, John intruded again. This time, it appeared, he had grown strong enough to speak consecutively. "I have not full power yet. But It is coming. I grow stronger. But the shock in my breast--I feel It." That was eomething of a venture. Rosalie waited to see what reply it would draw. The reply came, quick aad puzzling: "Did that come first then? Or, sure­ ly you didn't feel that?" asked Miss Estrilla as though In a fever of anxi­ ety. Rosalie, thinking like lightning, felt herself for the moment at her wits' ends. Upon the answer to that cryp­ tic question everything might depend. It were best, she concluded, to humor Miss Estrilla; to give her what she wanted, but to make the wording vague. She let her body heave, as though' John were retaining his con­ trol with difficulty. "No," said the voice, "that was not first. It had come already. But, some­ how---I knew." "Oh, thank God!" cried Miss Estrilla. John departed on this. Doctor Car­ ver and Laughing-Eyes spread clouds of mist, intellectual but rosy. They went; Rosalie entered that apparent sleep with which she concluded her "trances." As she lay there, with nothing to do but think, this new per­ plexity revolved itself in her mind. What meant that sudden question-- "Did that come first?" The. trail was leading into wildernesses of which she had never dreamed. Rosalie held three more seances with Miss Estrilla before she reached NOT ALL A PLEASURE TRIP To Illustrate Point, Writsr Tells Good Story of the Everglades of Florida. F}re Commissioner Johnson, apropos of the Triangle. Rtnghamfcon and other factory fires, said the other day in New York: "The new fire laws must be strictly enforced, and additional laws must be made, or otherwise to work in a fac­ tory will be«as dangerous as walking through a Florida swamp. "A friend of mine was going through the Florida everglades with a guide. The guide, as they followed the nar­ row path, tapped each hoUow log with his foot • Why do you do that?* asked my friend. ~ " 'Lookia' out for snake*,' said the guide. "'What kind of saakefY* "'Moccasins.' 1 ^ "'Holy smoke!' raid ttf filtnd. Then he frowned and asked uneasily: M 'Why do we walk on the logs, or so aloes to theai, when they're {all «C the final vital one to which alt her diplomacies had been leading. John is speaking through the lips of Rosalie Le Grange; aid Miss Es­ trilla is answering. '1 am stronger now. The flesh in­ fluence ia not yet gone ftom me. There i. was much on my soul. I find it hard to forgive. And I know I must--little lady." Rosalie had learned from Constance that "little lady" was Cap­ tain Hanska's pet name for woman in tender relations, and she let tt out as a venture. "Oh, John! But consider how much I have to forgive. Ah, did you ever love me? You never answered my letters." "I loved you perhaps too , much. Oyer here, we can not He. I was carried away--and I was married--" "Yes. Every one knows that now. You deceived me. It is harder for me to forgive that than the other thing." "Yes--but I loved you too much--to risk telling you." "Was that why you kept the Jewels, then?" A hard attack came into Miss Estrilla's tone. It pae more than a question; there was irony in it. Rosa­ lie thought rapidly. That diamond buckle on the stair-case--"the jew­ els"--here was a startling new corre­ lation of facts. She must venture no further; she must- have time to imag­ ine and to plan. "I can not tell you now," said the voice of John. "I am--growing weak-- I sinned--" "Oh, he's gone away!" broke ifl the voice of Laughing-Eyesi " • • • ••• Another seance. Johh hi fcpfetfkfri& Miss Estrilla answering. "Ah, I really 10ve you. But I find it hard to forgive." "Don't you understand, John, that it wasn't revenge? It was duty." "I know. There Is much that I do not understand, but I do understand that. In the flesh, I was always at­ tracted by the glitter of Jewels--" This was a lead into territory only partially explored. And the road opened. "I thfnk there were two parts of yon, John. But, oh, the better part loved me, did you not?" "Yes, loved you truly, little lady." "John, if you had stolen them out­ right--but to use my love!" "I am going. I am not strong enough yet to endure reproach--" "Oh, I will not reproach you again. You must forgive. You know how little you have to forgive. Wait, John, wait!" * * . • * # " . • • John is speaking again: Miss Es­ trilla replies. j "They give me new strength every day. But this" poor lgnoirant woman is weakening. Why did yon try to get them as you did?" "What was I to do when I found I had no claim under the law? What was I to do after you' wrote me that letter?" ' "That happened before I paised out I could not see you then. And I have not seen any one clearly. I am not like the better spirits. My soul was not good when It left the flesh. But I think you came to New York just to get the Jewels." (This waa a venture on Rosalie's part; still there were ways of retriev­ ing the mistake if her guess was wrong.) -Yes. it was my plan, aot Juan's. I have been more fooliBh than he. Ev­ ery day I spout in the rootu above you I was afraid you would discover me. Yet when I thought of you down there PRESIDENT IS VICTOR RULE LIMITING DEBATE ON TOLL# REPEAL BILL PA88ED BY HOUtfc, ' '45K- 'if*• -lit i? 'ifet i? .Jvly -Ai; "I Am John, Margaret." --I loved you still! But my eyes were really sick. It was because I cried so much--h<it I promised not to reproach you." "Little lady--1 was bad, but I loved •you. I think if I had seen you. I would have restored them." "Oh, John! That is hardest of.all! John,' I can not die and join you now --I dare not--because it would be wrong--and because of Juan!" Rosalie noted how the name of Juan came in again.. For caution, she must *eer away from that lead at present. (TO BE CONTINUED.) snakes? Why don't ^ve walk off there, where the ground is solid?' " 'Wall,' said the guide, aS he kicked another stump, 'ye moughtn't sink be­ low yer waist off there--and then ap*in jre mought!'" "" 1 '• " . (Midnight Inspirations : ~ Many eminent men have done some of their most famous work in bed. In­ deed, no small part of the world's lit­ erary treasures have been produced between the sheets by physically in­ dolent although mentally active men of genius. Longfellow's "Wijsck of the Hes­ perus" came to him as he was sitting by his fireside on the night after a violent storm. He went to bed. but could not sleep; the Hesperus would not be denied, and as he lay the verse* flowed on without let or hindrance until the poem was completed. Wordsworth uBed to go to bed aft­ er his morning walk, and, while break­ fasting there, dictate the lines he had composed while walking. w One at least of Rossini's operas was composed la bed.--Manchester flventac ... TWENTY HOURS IS ALLOWED Adoption of Rules Wins by Vote of 200 to 172--Speaker Clark Given an Ovation and Votes No Twice-- Adamson Upholds Wilson. Washington, March 30.--Two test votes taken by the house of represen­ tatives on Friday Indicate that tie bill repealing the free tolls clause of the Panama eanal act will be passed. The first ballot waq on a motion to take up the report of the committee on rules limiting debate on the bill to 20 hours. The vote on this was: Ayes, 207; noes, 176. The majority for the administration forces was 31. The second ballot was on the adop­ tion of the rules. It was adopted, 200 to 172, a majority of 28. When Speaker Clark entered the house chamber at 12 o'clock he was accorded an enthusiastic greeting, He cut short the ovation by 'asking the chaplain to pray. Representative Adamson of Georgia opened debate on the rule with a di­ rect attack on Speaker Clark. "For nine years," he said, "a lobby * has resounded throughout congress and the country in favor of free tolls. This is the firse rule ever asked for by the interstate commerce committee stnee I have been connected with it I first sought to have this bill consid­ ered in the ordinary way, but found it impossible to reach an agreement." Prolonged applause greeted Major­ ity Leader Underwood as be arose to uphold the rule. He said: "I am op­ posed to this rapeafVill. I am also opposed to the rule for its considera­ tion. I regret that the bill is before the house. I hope it will be defeated. But the president, having laid this im­ portant question before congress, it iuubI be considered, but it ought to be considered In the proper way. I have always endeavored to live up to and sustain my party's platform. The Democratic party, not I, wrote this free tolls provision in Its platform. I believe this plank of the platform Is right and believing this there is but one position I can take and that is to sustain the position of my party as expressed in its convention. I regret of course, that I have to differ with the president and that I am compelled to differ with many of my colleagues here. "The majority of the house has the right to legislate, hut the minority haa the right to be heard and propose rea­ sonable amendment I agree with the first clause of the rule, that the debate be taken up and carried forward with­ out interruption, but I will offer an amendment which will put it into the hands of the gentleman from Georgia (Mr. Adains6n) to move at any time to cut off debate, and if he has the ma­ jority of the house with him he will be able to bring the debate to a close." Speaker Clark's name was called aa the roll call ended. "No," *aiu the speaker, and the Republican side broke into applause, joined by a portion of the Democrats. The list of .Democrats who voted against "the previous question" and thus against the admlnlatration fol­ lows: Atk«n, Broekaoa, Bronasard, Bruckner, Caraway, Carew, Conry, Dale, Detirlek. Difendorfer. Donohoe, Doollngr, Doremua. DrlBcoll. Dupree, Egran, Elder, Finley, Fltsgerald, Gorman. Gulden Qraham (111.). Griffin, Harrison. Helm. I go. Jonea, K-lndel, Kirkpatrlck, Lee (Pa.), L'Ensle, Logue, McAndrewa, McDermott, Mahan. Maher, Mitchell, Morgan (La.), Murray (Mass.), Murray (Okla.), O'Leary, O'ShauneBsy. Patten (N. Y.). Phelan, Ragedale, Raker, Sherwood, Stone, Tay­ lor (Ark.), Taylor (Colo.), Thomas. Un­ derwood. William*, Wlngo. Speaker Clark. Total--55. Representative Kitchin, Democrat, of North Carolina, voted against the previous question on the roll call, but changed his vote to "present" Just be­ fore the result was announced. Republicans who voted for the pre­ vious question and the admlnlatration were: Bartholdt. Browne (Wis.). Gardner (Mass.), McKenzie. Madden, Stenneraoa. Stevens (Minn.), Gillett (Mass.). Total--1. INCREASE IN ARMY BUDGET Measure Passes Senate at $7,500,000 Mors Than Last Bill--Mexican Situation Is Factor. / Washington, March 31.--The tenate passed the annual army appropriation bill on Saturday. The measure car­ ries $101,750,000, about seven million five hundred thoueand dollars more than the house bill and about the same amount over the last army appropria­ tion bill. "I would not yield to these big in­ creases," announced Senator Thomas, Democrat of Colorado, "were it not for the., disturbed conditions on southern border.** the Iowa College Head Quits. Iowa City, la-, March 30.--The state board of education accepted the resig­ nation of John G. Bowman as presi­ dent of the University of Iowa, ef­ fective March SI. The actiwi was taken at Bowman's request. > y ? Crew to frison ror Melun, France, March 80.--Jail terms were given to the engineer and conductor of the Paris express, which was wrecked here. Thirty-nine per­ sons were killed in the accident juid a large number were injured. Held for Attack on Ju<§£*. ' Washington, March 30.--Wade H. Cooper, a banker, who lodged charges at the White House against Justice Wright of tho district 8upreme court was indicted by the grand jpy on a charge of criminal libeL „ { T Plunges Far to Hfs DetitfcV ' ' ' New York, March 30.--Robert M. Friedman, a civil engineer, fell or jumped from the twenty-fourth floor of the aew municipal building, landed on the cornice of the twa ̂fmr M# .if.?" ̂̂ J? ' VJ\-V NEWS OF ILLINOIS ooooo Danville:--J udge L. Judy sentenced Captain, a $100 bulldog, to death. The) dog had been foynd guilty of biting) Otto Thorpe, a mail carrier. Galeaburg.--George Riley, aged thir­ ty, whose home was at Bnshnell, wasi killed while trying to jump 52 a trsSg& train near that city. Morrisonville.--A. & Herdman, se*» enty-two years old, former represent* stive in the Illinois legislature, feQI dead from heart disease. Monmouth.--Mrs. Rena Walters of- Monmouth has a pet owl which is sit­ ting upon two hen's eggs. The bird was caught aeven years ago and ban become tame. Pecatonica.--Mrs. John Markhaftfc won the nomination for tax collector on the Democratic ticket, defeating two other women and five men for the place. Mount Sterling.--J. T. Ingraham of Chambersburg sixty-live years old, aw£ Mrs. Maggie Brown, Versailles, Sft|*» live, were married here. Rockford. -- The Illinois United Evangelical conference at Ashton elected the following presiding elders: EL K. Teakel, Freeport dis­ trict; J. G. Finkbeiner, El Paso dief trict, and B. R. Schultz, Chicago. Decatur.--Mrs. Lola Rickard of Rose Croix Chapter, O. E. 8., Chicago, was appointed superintendent of the Illtnois Eastern Star and Masonic Home at Macon. She succeeds Mrs. George I. Rice. Mrs. Rickard wns formerly in charge of the State Odd? Fellows' Home at Mattoon. Springfield.--With only a few scat­ tering precincts to hear from, return!* • show thai Norman L. Jones of Green county was nominated as the Demo* cratic candidate for circuit judge la the Seventh district over Judge F. B. Baldwin of Morgan county by 1,600 plurality. Danville.--Malink Salliday, sixty, 0f Homer, pioneer resident of this county and well-to-do farmer, shot his wife, fifty-eight. Believing the woman dead, he turnod the weapon on himself. Mrs. Salliday probably will die. The SalH- days had been married 40 years and were pointed out in this vicinity as an ideally-mated couple. Quincy.--Edward Ryan, seventy-five " years old, a member of the Quincy police department since 1870, died from pneumonia. He was formerly a detective and for years drove the police patrcl. He waa born in Ire­ land and was a member of the Con* federate army. Springfield.--Charles Brown, lntendent of the Bethel Holiness <0 ̂ phanage at Carlinville, emphatically denies charges made to the atifcte board of administration in € report filed by Charles Virden. Visitftttan , agent for the board. Serious is charged by Doctor Vlrdsn, "#ho says the children are njt sufidently nourished. Danville.--R. H. Richardson. pronU*- neat business man of Ridge form, waa arrested op complaint of Fijre liar- shal Moss or Paris, charged with start­ ing the fire which caused a lOia ot $1,000 to the Union block ia SUae farm. Although the arrest caaeM a big surprise and many believe him Innocent the fire marshal declares he has fstrong evidence. Joliet--Chewing the Mid of a cigar, William Cheney Ellis, once wealthy Cincinnati manufacturer, walked be­ hind the big gates of the Iliinoto ftnt* prison here, was enrolled aa oonVlct 3503 and began serving his sentence of 15 years for the murder of his beauti­ ful wife, Eleanor Hosea Ellis, in the Hotel Sherman, Chicago. Ellis com­ plained to reporters at the prison that he had gotten a "raw deal from every* ; body but the jury." " Champaign.--William Boyd has » ' bullet-pfoof stomach. He was watch­ ing Policeman Thompson battle with two men, who resisted arrest after n brawl, when Thompson fired his re* volver at one of his foes. The bullet missed the combatant hut struck Boyd's stomach, going through his clothing and breaking the skin. Boyd picked up the flattened bullet, handed j it to the policeman and went on hia way to work. Joliet--Two gallons of beer brought Edward Smith and John J. McGee, es­ caped Cook county convicts, back to the Illinois state penitentiary after posses of guards and deputy sherifja had abandoned the search. Smith and McGee, both serving; terms for murder and both trusties, escaped in Warden Allen's automobile. They headed r' straight for Chicago, eluding consta* bles along the route. At dawn a farmer on the BlufTton road near Joliet spied a touring car cutting queer, wab- > bly antics along the pike, a drunken : chauffeur in convict's garb at the wheel. Smith and McGee were put in solitary confinement They said they thought they were heading for Indiat^ a polls. i; a Mount Sterling.--Charles B. Po*J sythe, twenty yeara old, and Mian Eva Armatrong, seventeen, were mar* ried in Mount Sterling by Rev. 6. Wv Allison of East St. Louis, step-brother , of the bridegroom. Mr. Allison holding a series of revival meetings In the Baptist church in this city. MKv: and Mre. Foraythe will realde oa p ftrrs. :A • Gales burg.--George Mathew QtVtf, , fifty-three, teacher and South AHM*. can missionary, died here of fever. Btar four years Professor had been on the Galesburg higti aehool faculty. Springfield.--The state board of ad­ ministration started a campaign to P«ft out of business druggists in the state wt*o have been selling cocaine, mor­ phine. heroin and other neurotic narcotic drugs in Illinois in violation of the law. A llat "of five Chicago anil live down-state druggists wb» been making a practise of irugs elithe character and to many inmates of the state lasai pitals attribute their downfall!* hi. Is a letter sent to the state * pharifacy by the beard of ad; Hon with the request tfcal they |« • V'-'S Wm ' f/sl? I . . • ; "> ' V::"f ^ $ m '.A:-! /• t •' M ;--TvSv r, > '.'Am :• i - TiS-J. -RF- Wj-y- IF